Hockey
SENATORS DROP SUIT: The Ottawa Senators have officially dropped their lawsuit against forward Alexei Yashin after reaching a settlement.
Backed by the NHL, the Senators were suing the team's former captain for $930,000 for holding out for the entire final year of his contract last season.
Baseball
GWYNN STAYS WITH PADRES: Tony Gwynn will play a 20th season with the San Diego Padres after all.
A free agent for the first time in his career, the 40-year-old Gwynn decided to accept an incentive-laden $2 million, one-year contract that would be worth $5.7 million if he gets 600 plate appearances.
Gwynn has a career .338 average, 3,108 hits and eight NL batting titles.
CONE TO BOLT YANKEES: David Cone decided he didn't want to be the New York Yankees' fifth starter and turned down the chance to remain with the World Series champions.
Cone, coming off a 4-14 season, could have stayed for about $500,000 guaranteed and the chance to earn more in performance bonuses.
WETTELAND MAY RETIRE: John Wetteland, the Texas Rangers' career saves leader, was not offered arbitration and is considering retiring because of a back problem.
Wetteland, the MVP of the 1996 World Series while pitching for the New York Yankees, signed with the Rangers in '97 and had 150 saves over four years with at least 30 each season. He saved 34 last season and had a 4.20 ERA.
GRACE NO LONGER A CUB: The Chicago Cubs declined to offer the free-agent first baseman Mark Grace arbitration, ending his 13-year run with the team.
BUHNER BACK WITH MARINERS: Jay Buhner will return to Seattle for his 14th consecutive season with the Mariners, agreeing to a $1.85 million, one-year contract.
Golf
WORLD CUP OF GOLF: David Duval carried Tiger Woods, while Argentina and New Zealand topped the leaderboard in the first round of the World Cup of Golf.
Woods combined with Duval for an 11-under 61 in the opening best-ball round and finished the day tied for fifth, four strokes behind Eduardo Romero and Angel Cabrera and New Zealand's Frank Nobilo and Greg Turner. Australia's Peter O'Malley and Lucas Parsons shot a 58, Japan's Shigeki Maruyama and Hidemichi Tanaka opened with a 60, and Canada's Mike Weir, who lives in Draper, and Glen Hnatiuk and South Korea's Choi Kwang-soo and Park Nam-sin joined Woods and Duval at 61.
WOODS FINED: Tiger Woods was fined $100,000 by the Screen Actors Guild for shooting a nonunion Buick commercial during its six-month strike against advertisers.
Basketball
NMSU SANCTIONS: New Mexico State imposed sanctions on its men's basketball team for alleged NCAA violations that occurred under former coach Neil McCarthy.
School president G. Jay Gogue said the sanctions include a ban on postseason competition by the Aggies this season, the loss of four scholarships in the next three years and two years' probation. NMSU also will not recruit any junior college players for the 2002-03 season.
Football
RAIDER FINED: Oakland Raiders defensive end Regan Upshaw was fined nearly $30,000 by the NFL for spitting on Pittsburgh punter Josh Miller.
Soccer
MLS LAWSUIT: Major League Soccer has lost $250 million and is too much of a financial flop to be a monopoly, its lawyers said in closing arguments of the players' antitrust lawsuit against the league.